Before making a film on the life of Johnny Hallyday and declaring his love for the idol of young people, Olivier Marchal shouts his love for the police. "I love the cops and I'm here to say that I love the cops and that I respect this job," said the 61-year-old director on BFMTV on the sidelines of the demonstrations against the police planned this Tuesday June 9.
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"I just want the police to continue to be proud to be police today," said the director, himself a former cop at the microphone of Bruce Toussaint. "They are always the scapegoats for the instability and disorder of a society," he lamented, adding that the police had been "abandoned" and "disowned by the authorities and the hierarchy" .
The director also attacked personalities who have called for demonstrations against police violence in recent days. “I'm fed up with the fact that second-rate actors continue to shit on the cops when it is people who live in privileged neighborhoods who have privileged jobs. And which especially exacerbate all that and bring this speech of hate which is not acceptable for me " , added the creator of the series Braquo , aiming in a barely roundabout way Camélia Jordana and Omar Sy.
"I don't feel safe in the face of a cop," said the singer on France 2, while the actor from Intouchables called on the French to demonstrate against police violence from his American home last week.
In a column published by the Alliance National Police union a few hours before his intervention on BFMTV, Olivier Marchal was already attacking " the horde of small marquis who howl to death from the depths of their bourgeois apartments in the most upscale districts of the capital ”. "The cops have become Nazi hunters of blacks and Arabs to be wary of on every street corner , " he quipped, reiterating his love for the police.
